Women of Devil's Island explained

Women of Devil's Island
Director:Domenico Paolella
Producer:Gianni Hecht Lucari
Cinematography:Carlo Bellero
Language:Italian

Women of Devil's Island (Italian: Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo, French: L'île aux filles perdues) is a 1962 Italian-French adventure-drama film written and directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Guy Madison and Michèle Mercier.[1] [2]

Plot

In the late 18th century, a group of French female convicts - among them streetwalkers, murderers, and revolutionaries - are shipped to Devil's Island penal colony. They join the other female convicts already on the island and are forced by the cruel Lefèvre and his abusive guards to pan gold for the French king Louis XVI of France and his Austrian queen Marie Antoinette.

Lefèvre hopes for a promotion, but a new prison governor arrives with a letter from the king and takes command, also putting in place a more humane prison regiment for the women. In reality, the letter is a fake. He is the revolutionary Henri Vallière and in league with the pirates, who in a daring coup help him steal the gold and overturn Lefèvre's rule.

Cast

Release

On DVD, the film has been released in the United States by Mill Creek Entertainment on 7 February 2006 as part of the "Drive-In Movie Classics 50 Movie Pack",[3] and in Germany under the title Frauen für die Teufelsinsel in a licensed limited edition with German and English audio.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Roberto Chiti . Roberto Poppi . Enrico Lancia . Mario Pecorari . Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. 978-8884405036. 2007 .
  2. News: Matt Blake. Women of Devil's Island. 25 October 2016. The Wild Eye. May 28, 2010.
  3. Web site: Drive-In Movie Classics 50 Movie Pack: Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride - Snowbeast - Slave of the Cannibal God - Prisoners of the Lost Universe - Invasion of the Bee Girls - Horror of the Zombies - Day of the Panther - Single Room Furnished + 42 more . www.amazon.com . 22 March 2019. 7 February 2006 .
  4. Web site: Frauen für die Teufelsinsel (uncut) . Filmklassiker-uncut . 22 March 2019 . de.